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As the most significant food safety legislation of the last 100 years, the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) is designed to improve the U.S. food safety system by providing FDA with additional resources to prevent contaminated food from entering the food supply chain. This article brings you a current update regarding FSMA.

The emergence of antibiotic-resistant foodborne pathogens is inherently linked to how antibiotics have been used in food animal production.

An essential supplement to quality and safety systems that anchors them in reality is periodic testing to verify the authenticity of food ingredients.  

The Reportable Food Registry has become an effective addition to the range of tools FDA has to prevent foodborne illness and protect public health.

It is generally understood and accepted by food safety scientists that it is impossible to achieve food safety by testing or inspecting finished products.

For training and certification to be successful, all food protection professionals must have a clearly defined skill set to do their jobs.

All FDA regulations are required to include an economic analysis of the regulation’s impact on the public health and industry.

FDA’s goal is to develop preventive controls and specific actions that can be followed all the way down to the farm level and throughout the supply chain.

With a flurry of changes and new food safety regulations on the horizon, companies have the opportunity to discover more efficient and effective methods of consumer protection.  

In the 1990s, FDA undertook additional efforts to ban or restrict uses of lead in association with food.